What is recorded here

This blue commemorative plaque records: Thomas Clarkson 1760-1846 abolition of slavery lived here Recorded plaque organisation: Wisbech Council.

Thomas Clarkson was a leading British campaigner against the slave trade and a founder of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade, playing a crucial role in the legislative efforts that led to the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807.

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